I feel like I get stuck on 6 and 7 a lot, alone or in combination -- for better or worse, I often feel like when I write f/f my fic is making some kind of "statement" about what it means to be queer/female. How much of that is an internal sense of obligation and how much of it is what I think the audience expects, I'm not sure.
...Part of it for me is definitely influenced by being in animanga/game fandom, and dealing with the ways that f/f gets handled explicitly in, e.g., yuri anime; I don't see my own experience in stories about sweet high school girl-crushes, and I find myself wanting to write female characters and f/f relationships that I can identify with more.
But then that weighs down all of my f/f stories with this sense of obligation/expectation about Doing It Right, instead of letting them just be fluff.
I think I am just rambling now, but thank you for giving me reason to think about this stuff!
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Date: 2011-04-28 01:51 am (UTC)...Part of it for me is definitely influenced by being in animanga/game fandom, and dealing with the ways that f/f gets handled explicitly in, e.g., yuri anime; I don't see my own experience in stories about sweet high school girl-crushes, and I find myself wanting to write female characters and f/f relationships that I can identify with more.
But then that weighs down all of my f/f stories with this sense of obligation/expectation about Doing It Right, instead of letting them just be fluff.
I think I am just rambling now, but thank you for giving me reason to think about this stuff!